How weird. I could have sworn that I had done something about this record’s predecessor back in the day, but then I noticed that We Are Only Riders appeared back in 2009, just before this blog started. How time flies when you’re having fun, eh? Ah well, better give a bit of background, then. The [...]
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I’ve been to some odd locations for gigs lately. A field with a massive radio-telescope in it, a patio-ed room with a metal staircase in the middle of the dance floor, an art gallery beside the sea and a chapel. And now, a full-on Cathedral. In as much as Cathedrals can be full-on. I’m not [...]
Jaunts to our nation’s capital are not something I look forward to, in all honesty. Due to a largely crap transport infrastructure (thanks, Dr. Beeching!) getting there and especially home again takes the organisation of a military campaign. Sadly in my case, the campaign in question whenever I try to organise such a beano is [...]
Yes, quite. Just realised that in doing a top 35 (which isn’t exactly 35 anyway), splitting it into chunks of ten will eventually offend some law of mathematics or other. Whoops. Undeterred by this, the last five(ish!) will be individually added daily next week from Monday – although as I’m attempting a jaunt off down [...]
I hate end of year lists. Usually, it’s because the ones I read usually either are full of bands and records that I’ve never heard of and therefore make me feel old, or they’re full of bands and records that I have heard of but are in what I believe to be the wrong order. [...]
Been a busy last couple of days, and thanks to a popular purveyor of musical items happy enough to take pre-orders weeks in advance and then not being quite so on the ball when it comes to posting, this arrived about half an hour before I set off down to London to see one half [...]
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